TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Australians arrived. Supreme Court to-day. Manuka arrived from Sydney. Criminal sessions opened to-day. Sad boating fatality at Russell. Mokoia fov Sydney this evening. Baltic flcrl is still off Madagascar. Australian Eleven left fov Rotorua. Secondary schools resume this week. Bio-Tableau—change of programme to-night. Russians admit 13,000 casualties at Hei-kon-tai. New organ was dedicated at Otahuhu Church yesterday. Owners of unregistered dogs are being summoned this week. For a time the Japanese situation in the Hunlio battle was very critical. Oyama ordered the night attack on Hei-kon-tai as a desperate expedient. Revolutionary pamphlets have been discovered on warships at Sevastopol. Sebastopol mutineers have been rescued from prison, and started for America. * Hunho battle w.as fought in a heavy snowstorm, at a centigrade temperature of—3o. β-r Bad language sentences continue to be heavy—the latest is three months, at Waihi. Maxime Gorky was arrested for inciting Russian officers to join the popular movement. The Junior Lord of the Admiraltyemphasised the importance of the North Sea in the future. Interviewed at Colombo, General Stoessel denied the unjustifiable surrender of Port Arthur. The great Russian novelist, Maxime Gorky, is still a prisoner, despite the statements of the authorities. Orient liner* Orontes has refused 420 casks of mails for Australia under the Commonwealth's poundage scheme. The murder of two drovers and a blackboy at Victoria River, Northern Territory, is attributed to an aboriginal. Auckland Gas Company profits last year totalled £31,925. The usual .halfyearly dividend of 7/C per share will be payable to-morrow. Mrs Bertha Marshall, Mr John Culley, and Miss Cissy Culley, well-known Bay of Islands residents, were drowned at Russell yesterday afternoon. It is estimated that the loss in wages ajnong the mining community alone during the existence of the Newcastle strike amounted to upwards of £25,000. The weekly return of the Mt. Eden Gaol shows 'that the total number of prisoners is 192 males and 21 females, of whom 19 males and six females were received during the week. The League Wheelmen Council declines to endorse the North Canterbury's centre's action in reducing by one month the year's disqualification imposed upon Sutherland and P. Connell.

Gwendoline Reade, aged 10 years, daughter of the Acting Commandant of South Australia, was drowned whilst surf bathing off the Semaphore, Adelaide, last Saturday week. ' The Rev. Mr Walker, who has made a popular month's stay at. Thames, was struck with, the heavy death roll dur-* ing the period. During "January he officiated at no less than six funerals.

Australian residents in Cliristchurcli intend entertaining the members of the Australian cricket eleven during their stay h<3re. Mr Layer states that the team are very pleased to accept the invitation. .. ,

The other Ultimo-street, Syd- T ney, Frank Law, aged 17, was woufid*ai' in the right thigh, three or four revolver* shots having been fired at him. Some time ago the youth was threatened by the "push," -and on Friday an iron bar was thrown at him.

The Christchureli Tramway Company began the use of the route to Ferryroad and Suniner, via High-street, on Tuesday. The line was found to be in excellent order, and cars, which were well filled, especially in the morning to Sumner, ran very smoothly.

While some men were sulphuring a cask at a wine-seller's store at Wagga, N.S.W., a mysterious explosion occurred in the cask, and was heard a mile away. In the Adelaide Court, a lad who lost his right hand by an accident at a factory received a verdict for £150 damages against his employers. The largest prison camp for treeplanting operations is at Waiotapu, 23 miles from Aotorua, where there are 70 men at work. ■'At'Waipa; , close to Rotorua, : there v are' 25' ■prisoners, and" a similar number working at Dumgree, in the Marlborough district. ' The treeplanting work at Hanmer is carried on by 22 prisoners.